JeepNut Junior Member Posted 03-25-08 10:19 PM I work for a commercial plastering company out of Cleveland, IL by the name of Wayne Stohl and Sons Plastering. We normally travel to various cities around Illinois to Stucco commercial buildings. We want to see if Mike can hang with us for a day. There's nothing clean about this job.
cayceemcginnis Junior Member Posted 03-25-08 10:17 PM I think that you should come and visit my job. I work at Explosive Depth Hardining(EDH) Track Work Solutions. It is located in Danvers, Illinois. At my job we do a number of things including explosive depth hardining which hards the metal in train tracks with C2 so that trains can drive over them, KNT Mills which they mill the tops of pieces for the railroads, Finish grinders they put the radius on them so that the trains can ride over the tracks smooth, Pad Fitters that grind down the pads so that the all the mesurements are right and all the pieces go together right. That is about the gist of it. All of these jobs you get very dirty doing. I think that my line of work is exactly what your show is all about. If you would like anymore information about my job you can email me at cayceemcginnis@yahoo.com Posts: 1 | Registered: 03-25-08
BrookeM Senior Member Posted 03-27-08 11:42 AM Idea for a dirty job. One of the few remaining well drillers left, because of city municipal water taking over, water wells are becoming a thing of the past. Hard work, lots of mud, grease, welding, pipe fitting, have to drill all year, no breaks for the cold, wind, snow, or rain. Heavy equipment, unique equipment, a lot of people have no idea how wells are drilled. There is a science to whole thing, it is not just put a hole in the ground and hope for water.
Company: Wachholder Well Drilling City: Grayslake Illinois tommy.walkie.talkie@gmail.com
My father-in-law is a taxidermist (makes mounts of game animals) in the small town of Iuka Il. Illinois deer season for 2008 is November 21,22,23. He will get about 50-75 deer in this first weekend that will need to be gutted, skinned and decapitated. It truely is a dirty job!
cuffm1 Junior Member Posted 03-29-08 01:15 PM my brother in laws plant is in chicago. they make chicaken pickers for the farming industry. these pickers remove the feathers off any type of fowl and assist in sweeping up pecans.
Taxidermist, Goodfield, Il. Lokk Alive Taxidermy Marc Anthony, owner
I own a taxidermy shop here in IL. Talking about dirty! How about cutting the cape off of deer while you are peeling the skin around the lips, eyes, and so forth. Oh yes, the eyes! You gota love it baby. Then you get to cut the skull cap exposing the brain only to plink it out with a stick. The tongue slops out of its mouth while you are cutting away the skin inside its mouth. It's a dirty, sloppy, bloody disgusting job that the videographer can do wonders with. You're missing a sweet opportunity here Mike! Better yet, you will get to have me by your side and that can be enetertaining as I create facial expressions on the animal that is being worked on.
Originally posted by kzang: Fire extinguisher inspector/Aurora Tristate, Aurora IL. Western suburb of Chicago
My brother owns this company with two other men. Their clients include large shopping centers, hotels, Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Marx studio, etc. They have clients both in fire protection and in alarm protection.
He and I have put our heads together several times to try to come up with 3 to 4 dirty jobs that Mike could do at this company. Cleaning and re-filling old individual extinguishers is messy. My brother has suggested cleaning the powder room...I don't know what that is. The dirtiest job per my brother, would be inspecting/servicing the extinguisher system for a restaurant fire hood.
These have to be inspected every so often, as does every fire extinguisher in any public building. This can be scheduled at certain times, and would have to have the restaurant owner's agreement.
The cleaning and refilling of individual extinguishers is done at my brother's company. My son has done it and come home as a teenager complaining bitterly, but I doubt that it ranks as a dirty job to Mike.
There is also the wiring of alarm systems that is done all the time..they do schools, apartment buildings, and individual homes. Also there would be the installation of new range fire protection systems in restaurants. They even do the huge CO2 systems above printing presses that fill the whole room with foam immediately.
My brother does have several employees, guys who probably don't give a darn about DJ that he thinks would be great for Mike to work with. In other words, if Discovery or Dirty Jobs is interested in doing anything that has to do with fire extinguisher systems or alarm systems, my brother has a company that is successful doing just that.
country girl Junior Member Posted 03-31-08 08:24 PM Dairy Farmer Steffes Registered Holsteins Elizabeth Illinois
Our family farm has many jobs to complete every day. The usual ones consist of milking the cows feeding the calves and heifers and also cleaning the manure pit. There are also many other jobs that are completed every day and like any job some days are dirtier than others. But no matter what it is definetly a dirty job! =)
punkin1 Junior Member Posted 03-31-08 11:08 PM I suggest having Mike come and work as a dog bather/groomer during the spring season when all the farm dogs come to be cleaned up and/or shaved down. Most of these dogs aren't used to be handled by anyone but their owners and most haven't been groomed since LAST year! Posts: 1 | Registered: 03-31-08
lightbulb changer sears tower located 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois. theres employees in chicago that their job is changing the lightbulbs on the top of the sears tower
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jman2150 Member Posted 04-04-08 09:02 PM Used car detailer/body shop employee, Rochelle IL west of Chicago and a little south of Rockford
My Dad owns a used car dealership and I work there as a part time detailer and if you ask me it's a dirty job. You would be amazed at the kind of things people leave in their cars. In my time working there I have found Gum, soda, food wrappers, and even chicken bones. There’s also mud, leaves, dead bugs, dog/animal hair, and once I found a bloody saw (the car had belonged to a taxidermist). On the outside the cars have to be buffed, washed, waxed, there are stickers that have top be removed, and sometimes tar that has to be taken off with a special adhesive remover. Also there’s the pits underneath the wash bay where all the dirty water runs I’ve never had to clean this but I have heard there really dirty and I know that a horrible smell comes out if you though a big bucket of water into it.
On the other side of the build there’s a body shop that rents space from my dad. I’m not sure of the specifics of what they do but I know there is sand blasting, painting, cutting, and that every time I walk back there there is a layer of dust over everything.
All in all I think my dads back shop is a pretty dirty place so if you guys ever feel like stopping by let us know we'd be glad to have you.
I'm a student at Wabash Valley Community College in the small town of Mount Carmel, IL. Mr. Leynaud, A.K.A. The Master, is a teacher at this community college and in his line of work he teaches the anatomy of serveral kinds of critters. For example his classes have disected Baby Skarks, Fetal Pigs, and different assortments of worms and instects. But probably what he is more known for is his Cadaver Disection class. Right now the college has five bodies that Mr. Leynaud uses for his Anatomy/Physiology Classes and his Cadaver Disection class. I have never seen a more dedicated teacher that thoroughly loves teaching about the Human Anatomy. You won't be disappointed.
Mr. Don Leynaud Wabash Valley College 2200 College Drive Mt. Carmel, Illinois 62863
Park Maintenance for Geneva Park District in Geneva IL 60134. Anything from emptying garbage cans filled with wonderful things like deadfish or dipers to lawnmowing, or bathroom cleaning and anything inbetween.
Help Wanted! Sterling Professional Lawn Services Job: Full Service Landscaper, Sod Installer, and Lawn Maintance Worker. For the Marion, IL area (Southern Illinois) Plenty of available hours! Must not be afraid to get dirty!!! If you don't mind working hard, being covered in sweat, dirt, and only God knows what else, then this is the job for you, Mike. If you were to come and work for Sterling Professional Lawn Services you would be installing sod, planting trees and shrubs, installing block perimeters and retaining walls, shoveling and placing decorative rock and mulch, removing unwanted landscaping materials such as overgrown shrubs, trees, and grasses, mowing and trimming, and whatever random jobs come along. FYI: The hotter the summer heat the dirtier the job becomes! When applying ask for Ashley or Sterling Mrazek
Dragonsprincess Junior Member Posted 04-07-08 10:23 PM talk to the Illinois Dept of Natural resources, I did some volunteer work with them that got pretty messy.
My husband has a painting business in Springfield, IL. I'm often reminded of DJ when he comes home on days they've been spraying a house. All you can see are his eyes and a thin layer of paint from head to toe that gives him a ghost quality. Then there is the staining of woodwork... some of it doesn't come off and looks like blood or poo until it wears off. Jeff laughs at the painters that wear 'painters whites' because they just cann't be that busy and stay that clean!!
What a better way to get dirty than working with Dirt. My mother-in-law owns and operates a Soil Testing Laboratory in Cropsey Illinois called GMS Labs. The job starts with pulling the soil samples from the farmers field, logging it in and drying the sample, grinding the sample (the dirty part), preparing the sample for testing, doing the testing and obtaining results, logging results into computer and generating GPS maps for farmers to use to better apply fertilizer to prevent waste and over use of fertilizers.
I've seen a lot of agriculture jobs on the show, but none in a soil lab working in the dirt. So come on out and play in the dirt.
Ability Services, Professional Hood & Equipment Cleaning. Champaign, IL. 217-355-8496 of 888-399-4453
While I was attending the University of Illinois, I met a guy named Paul Schneider. He owns Ability Services, and they clean restaurant exhaust systems. After I had known him for a couple years, I was lamenting the fact that I had not been able to find any summer work, when he offered me some work helping him clean the exhaust system at a local Chinese restaurant.
Paul didn't blow any sunshine up my ass about the job, he told me it was greasy, hot, and to wear clothes I didn't mind sacrificing. I figured, how bad could it be? I've done lots of construction demolition jobs, and didn't have a problem with them.
Grease was indeed the word of the day. All of Paul’s tools, his truck, EVERYTHING is covered in grease. After lots of elbow grease hand scraping the hood, Paul fires up the heated pressure washer, and ads his secret ingredient, caustic soda. Then there was the clean up, that was fun too.
When all was said and done, I was exhausted, and as dirty as I had ever been before or since. The worst part about it, was the stuff just wouldn't come off of anything. I didn't want to get into my truck wearing all that grease, so I drove home wearing nothing but my boxer shorts a ... praying that I wouldn't get pulled over. Paul had forgotten to tell me to wear a sacrificial hat as well, and as a result I was combing gobs of grease out of my hair, even after washing it eight times. I threw all the clothes away, including my shoes.
I didn't need the money that bad, I never worked for Paul again. I still talk to him every now and then. A couple years ago I sold him a truck for the business. I recently got word that he was looking to sell that truck, and I briefly considered buying it back from him, as it had been a very good vehicle for me. Then I remembered what Paul's trucks look like, and I quickly put that thought out of my head.
I just starting working here 2 months ago and it's dirty and always something new every time we show up to work. We are an industrial cleaning company that cleans everything from Kitchen hoods, Smoke stacks, Vents, Painting booths. I personally had to climb down a 3 story later inside a exhustpipe from a dorm kitchen. Our contractors joke about writting to put our company on this show, but nobody has done it until now. We are some of the people that clean the things that nobody thinks about. Sometimes the smell is horrible, sometimes the ovens, grills, and stirr fries arn't cooled down, it's a dirty job but we get paid to do it. Below are some pictures from work that I posted and some videos from my phone that I uploaded from work. Sorry about the cussing it comes out when doing this dirty job. Hope you consider our job for Dirty Jobs.
HI MIKE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO COME TO OQUAWKA,IL. AND CHECK OUT HOT WHEELS ROBOTIC SEMI TRUCK WHEELS POLISHING. WE HAVE A STATE OF THE ART WHEEL POLISHING MACHINE. HOWEVER THE MACHINE NEEDS CLEANED EVERY 3 DAYS AND BY THE TIME YOU ARE DONE YOU ARE A SILVER COLOR FROM HEAD TO TOE. WE ALSO DO POLISHING ON SMALLER ALUMINUM PARTS AND THIS IS ALL DONE WITH A BUFFER. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS AS A VERY DIRTY JOB.
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